Here are some facts about the investigation . . .

Fact:  The FBI never brought charges against anyone for having visited one of the alleged child porn sites. In the U.S. All of the Operation Avalanche arrests were people the FBI had independently trolled to buy material offered by the government, completely apart from the Reedy's operation.

Fact:  Thomas Reedy got life, even though he had never produced a single piece of child porn. His wife got a lesser sentence.

Fact:  Landslide was not a self-contained web site but, rather, acted as a portal to a wide range of sites (literally thousands) the vast majority offering legal pornographic material.

Fact:  During the initial part of Landslide’s operation it facilitated access only to sites offering adult pornographic material.      

Fact:  Defence experts were refused appropriate access to the original evidential material.  The reasons given were:

1. "The database contains images of child abuse which it would be wholly improper for us to copy."  This is not true, the database itself contained no images.

2. "It also contains the personal details of the thousands of Landslide subscribers resident in the United Kingdom.  Information which, as you will appreciate, is highly confidential." The prosecution experts were allowed appropriate access, so why not the defence? This deprived the defendant of his right to a fair trial.

Fact:  A key piece of evidence - the presence of the "CLICK HERE CHILD PORN" button - has been shown to be incorrect.

The Prosecutions relied on this as absolute evidence of intent on the part of subscribers to actively seek child pornography.  In fact, subscribers were routed to Landslide from whatever site they visited.

Fact:  A number of prosecutions for incitement (number currently unknown) have been undertaken without disclosing

 that the evidence concerning the "CLICK HERE CHILD PORN" button was, at best, unreliable.

Fact:  A total of 398 sites are named as being part of Landslide's KEYZ service.

Only twelve sites on the KEYZ list are noted as containing child pornography.  The other sites are classified by inferences drawn from advertisements, banners and complaints.    Therefore less than 3.3% of the sites available via the KEYZ service were provably displaying child pornography at some point in time.

Fact:  The UK Police initially received a copy of the relevant sections of the database from Interpol.

Fact:  Celt Ltd were given access to the database that defence teams were later refused. This deprived the defendant of his right to a fair trial.

Fact:  Details of at least one case and possibly many more, were leaked to the Press before any search and seizure operation was carried out.

Fact:  Inaccurate and incomplete disclosure of prosecution statements and exhibits was made in these cases. This deprived the defendant of his right to a fair trial.

Fact:  The Director of CEOP (Jim Gamble), says in a letter to the Sunday Times (3rd June 2005) that "1,500 have been convicted".  However, he does not indicate just how many of these were the result of guilty pleas where :-

1. The defendant was not legally represented.
2. The defendant had poor or ill-informed legal representation
3. No defence technical report was commissioned, or
4. No pornography was found